Tara Murray
St Albans Saints and Hume City’s Australia Cup campaigns came to an end on Tuesday night.
Round seven of the knock out competition got underway on Tuesday night, with the Saints facing Heidelberg United at Olympic Village and Hume City making the trip up to John McEwan Reserve to face the Goulburn Valley Suns.
Heidelberg United was the first to hit the scoreboard in their match with the Saints, in the seventh minute through Ken Athiu.
The Saints hit back through Michael Grgic in the 34th minute with scores locked at 1-1 at half time.
Heidelberg regained the lead in the 58th minute through Kaine Sheppard.
With the clock ticking down, the Saints found an equaliser in the 88th minute through Mouad Zwed.
The two teams were locked at 2-2 after the 90 minutes and injury time with the game heading to extra time.
After the first 15 minutes the score was still locked at 2-2.
Both teams started to look tired and it was the Saints that made the first mistake.
Twenty five minutes into extra time, Saints goalkeeper Gabriel Matti dropped a ball kicked into the box and Athiu bounced to give his side the lead.
They held on to win, 3-2.
Meanwhile Hume’s trip up the highway ended in disappointment, with the Suns winning 2-0.
The Suns scored just before half time through Jamie England to give them plenty of confidence heading into the break.
Joseph Adoo-Peters doubled the lead for the Suns in the 62nd with the crowd feeling an upset was brewing.
Hume wasn’t able to get back into the game, with the Suns holding on.
The rest of the round seven matches are to be played this week.
Melbourne Knights will host Yarraville Glory, Northcote City will face Clifton Hill and Oakleigh Cannons will play Geelong, all on Tuesday night.
